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Message-ID: <20061031071531.GT14055@kernel.dk>
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 08:15:32 +0100
From: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@...cle.com>
To: NeilBrown <neilb@...e.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>, linux-raid@...r.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Check bio address after mapping through partitions.
On Tue, Oct 31 2006, NeilBrown wrote:
> This would be good for 2.6.19 and even 18.2, if it is seens acceptable.
> raid0 at least (possibly other) can be made to Oops with a bad partition
> table and best fix seem to be to not let out-of-range request get down
> to the device.
>
> ### Comments for Changeset
>
> Partitions are not limited to live within a device. So
> we should range check after partition mapping.
>
> Note that 'maxsector' was being used for two different things. I have
> split off the second usage into 'old_sector' so that maxsector can be
> still be used for it's primary usage later in the function.
>
> Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@...cle.com>
> Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@...e.de>
Code looks good to me, but for some reason your comment exceeds 80
chars. Can you please fix that up?
Acked-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@...cle.com>
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Jens Axboe
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